[Python-Dev] Testing tkinter on Linux

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/27/2015 12:35 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> None of the linux buildbots run with X enabled.  Consequently none of the
>> tkinter (or tkinter user) gui tests are run on Linux.  It was thus pointed
>> out to me, during discussion of using ttk widgets in Idle, that we do not
>> really know if ttk works on the variety of Linux systems (beyond the one
>> Serhiy uses) and that I should look into this.
>
> If it helps, my buildbot has full GUI services, so if there's a simple
> way to tell it to run the GUI tests every time, they should pass.

Somewhere your buildbot has a shell script to run that ends with a 
command to start the tests. The commands are echoed to the buildbot 
output.  Here are two that I found.

./python  ./Tools/scripts/run_tests.py -j 1 -u all -W --timeout=3600
... PCbuild\..\lib\test\regrtest.py" -uall -rwW -n --timeout 3600
(and python -m test ... should work)

If the command has -ugui (included in -uall) *and* a graphics system can 
be initiated (X on Linux), then the gui resource is marked present and 
gui tests will run.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy